Not artful

That’s the amount a Homeland Security report says the president’s promised Mexican border barrier will cost. It would pay for two aircraft carriers or 150 years of the National Endowment for the Arts. Or Trump could fund the Labor Department for a year – and still buy Twitter.

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U.S. President Donald Trump's so-called wall along the U.S.-Mexico border would be a series of fences and walls that would cost as much as $21.6 billion and take more than three years to construct, according to a U.S. Department of Homeland Security internal report seen by Reuters on Feb. 9.